Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:20:51 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: Andrew Elmore <aelmore@interwoven.com> Subject: Re: printing manpages Message-ID: <4075EC63.20406@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040408193736.K26026-100000@frambozen.monochrome.org> References: <20040408193736.K26026-100000@frambozen.monochrome.org>
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Chris Hill wrote: >On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Andrew Elmore wrote: > > > >>[...] I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a manpage. >>The closest "man man" gives me is: >> >>-t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, passing the >> output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S -man may need >> to be passed through some filter or another before being printed. >> >>Any suggestions on what the command line for that filter looks like? >> >> > >I get good-looking results using, for example, > >man -t ipfw | lpr > >...or plain-vanilla (but readable) results using > >man ipfw | lpr > >FWIW, this is with a Postscript printer. HTH. > > Also works with apsfilter; I would have to assume any printer, therefore. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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